“Nem bandido, nem herói. Policial é trabalhador”: O movimento de Policiais Antifascismo e as polícias na política

Abstract

For some time, many works on police and military have been produced by the academy. And it should not be different, since the participation of these agents in the public and political life of the country has always been a constant, since the military and police are present in almost all the important events of the political life of Brazil. Thus, more recently, between 2018 and 2022, the military and police resumed their protagonism, and voluntarily or not, were elected and helped to elect a legion of conservative and right-wing politicians, both in the executive and in the federal and state legislatures and municipal. Against this ideological perspective, predominantly widespread inside and outside corporations, which, in general, legitimize recrudescent discourses and actions, a group of police officers “defenders of human rights”, and who seek to restructure the current model of public security, passed also to compete in the public debate on public security, criminal policy, police and politics. Pejoratively called “watermelons” or “leftist police” by other conservative and right-wing police, military and politicians, some joined a collective calling themselves: Antifascism Police. Thus, despite the innumerable and diversified research on the police and the military, the spectrum on the left, especially the police, involves new perspectives, even more so when it comes to the group in question, as perhaps the work is among those that inaugurate the debate on the object specifically. In this way, our starting question wanted to know how these police officers are inserted and how they participate in the Antifascism Police Movement. The overall objective was to understand which public debate the group intends to establish. Specifically, we also wanted to understand if there are and what, if any, are the movement's ideological contradictions; analyze the material conditions of existence; to know how insertion takes place and to analyze how the anti-fascist narrative of its members is characterized. In the methodology, we applied the qualitative approach, which had as a method the “content analysis”, elaborated from the use of the “technique of in-depth qualitative interviews”. Thus, this research tried to contribute to a process that demonstrates that, since ancient times, police and military are and are politicized, and in the most diverse ways involved in politics. In addition to aiming to contribute to the debate, and put into perspective, the categories of the Military Left and the Police Left.